Evolution not starting

Mike Davies · 08-15-2010, 06:20 AM

Having a problem with Evolution not starting.

It is version 2.28.3-2

Simply doesn't start. Brings up the main mail window, doesn't show any mail folders, and doesn't respond to any key presses or mouse clicks.

Other users on the same PC have no problems, so it must be user specific. Some sort of config problem I guess. But where ? This particular user has over 500Mb of mail in folders.

Any help appreciated

repo · 08-15-2010, 06:31 AM

Perhaps there is a corrupted file
Try to backup the mailfolder
Then start with an empty mailfolder, and copy the mails back.

Mike Davies · 08-15-2010, 08:54 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Not sure what this was all about, but a reboot seems to have fixed the problem.

TITiAN · 08-15-2010, 09:22 AM

Sounds like you installed updates to me; it is common practice to reboot if problems occur after updates. But if you didn't install any updates, I don't have any idea...

Mike Davies · 08-15-2010, 05:03 PM

It has happened again. Just for this one user. It seems that evolution-data-server.x86_64 2.28.3-2.fc12 gets stuck.

If I kill that and evolution as well, then evolution starts OK and appears to run for a few hours.

But it's just this one user being affected.